How about tracking how you landed your last trick, or the distance you've skated this week?

That's what FlipMotion aims to do with RideBlock, a device that attaches to a skateboard and — paired with a smartphone — can keep tabs on everything from how high an ollie (jump in skateboard terms) is to mapping your latest skating route.

"This tiny device goes into the truck of your skateboard or longboard and can do all the magic [of skateboard tracking]," said Jibin Jose, CEO and cofounder of FlipMotion. Jose demonstrated the RideBlock prototype on Wednesday at an event sponsored by Make in LA, a hardware startup accelerator.

Packed with sensors inside, the shockproof, water-resistant device goes right behind a skateboard truck (the hardware used to attach the wheels to the board). Once installed and paired with a phone, it collects all kinds of data, which can be analyzed later or shared with others. Much like FitBit has its "challenges" between friends, RideBlock aims to make skateboarding competitive, just on a worldwide scale in real time.

"The best feature that I like is the video syncing ability," Jose said. "RideBlock lets you sync the video of the trick that you are performing and overlay the stats on top of it."

It's an interesting way to settle debates on who landed the better trick, which founders Jibin Jose and Abimanyu Nair say is how their initial idea was formed. Instead of the two skaters (who are also engineers) arguing over it, they created hardware paired with an app that will definitively tell you.

I tested it out at the event, and two things happened: I quickly realized my skateboarding skills are rusty but still adequate enough to ollie, and second, the device recognized the trick and said I did pretty well.

However, there is room for improvement in the device's ability to understand what tricks are happening. It can't yet understand every flip or move a skateboarder performs, though Nair told TI it can track an ollie or kickflip with 90% certainty.

There is still plenty of excitement over what the device can eventually do. After the company showed off RideBlock earlier this month at the Consumer Electronics Show, it received around 200 preorders of the product, which it plans to sell for $79.

FlipMotion is planning an Indiegogo campaign for March, and hopes to have the device out to skaters by the end of 2016.